Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.